By Kim McCloskey (a JoyFully Read!™ JRCP certified tutor) Fall is my favorite season, I love walking through crunchy leaves, looking at blazing leaves backlit by sunlight, a warm cup of ginger tea, and the smell of pumpkin seeds toasting in the oven. But where I live, it’s almost at an end. The forecast is…
Linda started her career in education in Southern California. She has a degree in early Childhood Development from Cal State University Fullerton. She worked several years as a first grade elementary school teacher. In Utah she spent 2 years working as a Head Start school teacher and 7 years in the Alpine School District as a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_E_except_after_C Thar be lots o’ fancy tools for making reading easier matey! At JoyFully Read!TM we’ll teach you the difference between a spelling rule and a spelling guideline, or tendency. See what we can do to help you or your emerging/struggling reader by giving us a call today! (801) 607-2773 OR visit us @ joyfullyread.com
Hey parents! Does your child struggle with reading? ANSWER: JoyFully Read! Do you need an enjoyable program/curriculum that helps you teach reading to your loved ones? ANSWER: JoyFully Read! Have you tried to teach your child to read but get discouraged by ineffective or boring programs? ANSWER: JoyFully Read! Do you have little time for lesson preparation,…
Leah is our newest tutor at Joyfully Read! She has been a nanny of 6 for 6 years and loves working with children to help them learn and grow. She volunteers at Courage Reins to help children with disabilities gain confidence and motor skills with the horses. She loved to read as a child and…
Jacob Hyrum Donaldson is “an artist and such”. While aspiring to be a modern day Renaissance man of sorts (artist, performer, writer, director, editor, etc.), he loves to work in these fields whenever given the chance. He has done sketches, canvas’, still forms & animation. Some simple stuff, some more complex, some with color, some…
A good illustrator is the perfect collaborator for a well written story. The pictures can help the reader to comprehend the meaning of the words and bring whimsy and life to the story. At JoyFully Read! the authors and illustrators work together to bring you stories that are not only appropriate to the sound and…
Our JoyFully Read! family has grown! Meet two of our newest tutors! Summer Crockett comes to us with an abundance of enthusiasm and experience. It may be a cliche to say, but she really is like her name- warm, engaging and a breath of fresh air. She works well with students of all ages.…
Research shows that reading to your children is one of the best ways to ensure your child’s interest in the world of books. Reading to children when they are infants and preschoolers helps them learn new words, increases their ability to concentrate, and makes them want to learn to read. Children then take those strong…
JoyFully Read! can help your child to become a confident reader, but how can you nurture that new found love of reading? Well, here is the formula: A quiet room + a good book + time to read = a happy, motivated reader
Michelle has been told over and over again that she “is a light to others.” She has always loved learning, teaching and children. She is mother of five, grandmother to 2, and has worked for a combination of 29 years as owner of Heart to Heart Preschool and Child Care Service owner, Teacher/Educator, Certified Reading Specialist, Reading Tutor, and business owner of an award winning business that has been rated number one in her area for years. Michelle, previously a Joy School teacher and homeschool mother, believes in the importance of education and knows that reading plays a vital role in learning and in life! She created the JoyFully Read!™ Reading Program 17 years ago to assist her as a reading tutor in her tutoring business. JoyFully Read!™ has been used in home schools, online homeschools, private schools, a charter school, and personal as well as classroom tutoring for students of all ages. Michelle also helps parents, schools, teachers and tutors to become JRCP certified reading teachers through her program and welcomes and assists them in starting their own successful tutoring businesses. She loves enabling parents (especially moms) to be blessed with the ability to have very rewarding work from their own homes, when needed/desired, like she did.
Mr. C earned his Bachelor’s in Behavioral Science with an emphasis on Family Studies from Utah Valley University. He loves teaching reading skills! He is married to Michelle the founder of the JoyFully Read!™ Program. He loves learning about people and families. He enjoys reading a variety of subjects, watching mysteries, and watching sports with his sons.
Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Religious Education degree with a concentration in church music from Davis College. She has taught in Sunday School, youth clubs, children’s choirs, women’s classes, and adult choirs over the past 30 years. As a homeschooling mother of six, she taught her children from kindergarten through high school, as well as co-op classes for homeschoolers in various subjects.
Rebecca spent her growing-up years with her nose buried in one book after another. Her children have absorbed this love of reading through lots of family read-aloud time and their own reading adventures. Rebecca believes reading is one of the supreme joys in life, and everyone should have the opportunity to experience it.
Robin earned her Bachelor’s in Communications from Brigham Young University.
She has 7 years experience as a Reading Focus Group Para-educator for Lake Elsinore Unified School District. She worked in advertising for 13 years but left that career to raise four sons. When they started attending school she loved volunteering in the classroom, which lead to a new career opportunity working with students mostly reading in small groups.
She loves working with children and all people in various capacities including Cub Scouts, Sunday School, as well as in the public school setting. She loves tutoring and loves to see those sparks of enlightenment that set a fire of a lifetime of learning through reading!
Liza earned her Bachelor’s in Sociology from Utah State University. She loves working with children and teaching others that if you can read, you can become anything. Liza loves to spend her time trying different foods, enjoying the outdoors, reading Science Fiction, and being with her growing family.
Eliza has worked for JoyFully Read! for 4 years. She has worked in 3 different centers in Provo and has enjoyed all of them. Eliza is currently working on her last semester to earn her Bachelors degree in English at Utah Valley University. She enjoys getting to know each of her students and helping them find joy and confidence in a task that tends to start out as difficult. In Pre-school JoyFully Read! was the reading program that she used to learn to read herself and she has enjoyed being apart of the JoyFully Read! team for the past 4 years. Eliza enjoys being outdoors and finding new hobbies that enhance the joy in her life.
Emily earned her Bachelor’s in English Creative Writing and Editing at UVU. She served an LDS mission in Lubbock, Texas. She loves writing novels, her cat Guy, music, baking, designing some graphics, and reading. Being a tutor at JoyFully Read!™ is such a joy to her because of the amazing children she works with and she believes that books are a gateway to imagination and adventures.
Meagan got her bachelor’s degree in family life and human development. She was the head teacher at a Montessori preschool. She has always loved working with children from a young age. Her husband is currently in Residency at UC Davis. Meagan has a 9 month old little boy and has loved becoming a mother.
Miss Whitney is a BYU English grad turned sugar wizard, she divides her time between teaching kiddos to read and creating edible masterpieces. Juggling four tiny taste testers while baking up a storm.
Rachael is an extrovert who loves finding ways to have fun with the people who matter most to her. She enjoys creative writing, being a Mom, and going down internet rabbit holes about historical clothing.
Elizabeth is a former classroom teacher with a Master’s of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language. Previously licensed in K-12 ESL, Middle Grades Language Arts, and Middle Grades Math, most of Elizabeth’s professional life has involved working with at-risk youth populations in summer camps, after school programs, and then in the ESL classroom. She left the classroom to take care of her 3 babies but her passion for spreading literacy continued, and now that the youngest of those babies is in middle school and the oldest in college, she is ready to get back to teaching! An avid reader herself, Elizabeth believes that reading is the key to the world (both real and imaginary!) and everyone should have access to it.